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From Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to Syrian chemical weapons

by Thierry Meyssan

From Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to Syrian chemical weapons

Damascus (Syria) | 5 March 2019
In a report dated 1 March 2019, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) attests to the fact that were never any prohibited chemical substances in Douma (Syria) during the attack of 7 April 2018. The reprisal tripartite bombing (United States, France, United Kingdom) was therefore unjustified. This scandal is exactly identical to the story of the bogus Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. It will be followed by many other items of fake news as long as the West continues to trust their medias.

France will give to Iraq 1 000 million euro

France will give to Iraq 1 000 million euro

17 January 2019
Following the Head of US Diplomacy, Mike Pompeo, his French partner ‎Jean-Yves Le Drian also made a visit to Bagdad. His visit coincided with the visit of King Abdallah II of Jordan. ‎
To everyone’s surprise, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs announced that France – while in the throes of a financial crisis – will give to Iraq 1,000 million euro (1 150 millions US dollars). This will go to participating in Iraq’s reconstruction following the war against the Islamic Emirates ‎‎(Daesh). ‎ (...)

Iraq at crossroads

Iraq at crossroads

10 September 2018
In response to the riots at Basra, the secular coalition of Moqtada al-Sadr has requested an apology from and the resignation of their former ally, the Iraqi Prime Minister Haïder al-Abadi.
Moqtada al-Sadr, although the Shiite leader, promises both a policy of independence with respect to Iran and the United States and a strategy of alliance with the other Iraqi religious groupings.
Prime Minister Haïder al-Abadi came to power in 2014 imposed jointly by the United States and Iran despite (...)

Al-Abadi declares a state of emergency in Iraq

Al-Abadi declares a state of emergency in Iraq

20 July 2018
Demonstrations are taking place in Southern Iraq denouncing the lack of essential services that the government should guarantee.
At the weekend, Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi declared a state of emergency anticipating that the social movement would catch fire in the capital.
The protests started out crying out for electricity. Now, it is 45 to 48o C in the Southern Iraq. You simply cannot work at this temperature without air conditioning.
Demonstrations are gaining momentum to (...)

Pro-US Kurds against Iraqi and Syrian Christians

Pro-US Kurds against Iraqi and Syrian Christians

7 July 2018
The regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan has established an Islamic tax on businesses owned by Christians.
This tax appeared at the end of June in Ankawa, a district of Erbil, a city where 80% of the inhabitants are Christian. This tax is a mutated form of the former “Djizîa”, the tax collected from Christians who did not want to join the army. Whilst the initiative of the municipal authorities had at first been denounced, the City of Semel has followed suite and also introduced this tax. (...)

Redistributing the cards in Iraq

Redistributing the cards in Iraq

16 June 2018
The Iraqi Parliament has declared that the legislative elections aimed at reviving its functioning, were irregular. Parliament has revoked the Electoral Commission and has called for the votes to be recounted.
Violence has broken out in Baghdad, resulting in 18 deaths.
Although Moqtada el-Sadr (left in the photo above), winner of the elections that had been annulled, has denounced the manoeuvre of the outgoing parliament, he has appealed to the Iraqi people to lay down their weapons.
A (...)

The Outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister challenges the Electoral Commission

The Outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister challenges the Electoral Commission

11 June 2018
The outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, has denounced the serious irregularities during the Iraqi legislative elections. In particular, he has accused members of the Independent Electoral High Commission (IEHC) of rigging the electronic votes that operated from abroad.
Al Abadi announced his intention for a pre-emptive ban on members of the IEHC leaving the country while waiting for a judicial decision.
For its part, the IEHC has already annulled the results of more than a (...)

Will 7 million Iraqis be deprived of water this summer?

Will 7 million Iraqis be deprived of water this summer?

11 June 2018
According to the Iraqi Minister of Hydraulic Resources, this summer around 7 million people could be without water and therefore would have to be moved to other regions of the country.
Over the last year, several sources of water have seen their level drop drastically. The two images above are two photos of one of the principal basins of the country. The first (on the left) was taken on 25 May 2017 and the second (on the right) was taken a year later. The drop in the level of water is (...)

In question – US presence in Iraq

by Thierry Meyssan

In question – US presence in Iraq

Damascus (Syria) | 1 June 2018
Iraq has never known peace since the invasion by the United States, fifteen years ago, and as a result the electorate has lost faith in the different political institutions which followed. In any case, those citizens who did take part in the elections of 12 May chose anti-US electoral lists, thereby sanctioning those of the Prime Minister, who didn’t really deserve it. Will the United States be able to sustain the disorder? Or will they be obliged to actually leave?

Demonstration in Kurdistan against the Barzanis

Demonstration in Kurdistan against the Barzanis

29 December 2017
18 December 2017: responding to the call of the Goran Party, several thousands of officials demonstrated, at Sulaymaniyah, the second town in the Iraqi Kurdistan, calling for the resignation of the regional government.
The demonstrators, directly challenging the authority of the Barzanis, were displaying placards slamming “26 years of robberies and poor decisions”. Some of them, unable to exercise self-restraint, set alight the headquarters of the PDK, the Barzanis’ Party (Sunnites), as well (...)

Two studies on arms trafficking to Syria and Iraq

Two studies on arms trafficking to Syria and Iraq

29 December 2017
Let us highlight several publications on arms and ammunition trafficking to the destinations of Syria and Iraq.
In a lengthy study , Conflict Armament Research revisits to what extent Isis has benefited from trafficking over the last three years. This mysterious organization has studied 84 sites in Iraq and 27 in Syria. It has picked up on a number of more than 1,800 arms with the help of the Iraqi government and pro-US Coalition forces. Its conclusion: Daesh arms often came from (...)

The Barzanis’ Crimes against Non Kurds

The Barzanis' Crimes against Non Kurds

7 November 2017
Sheikh Hatem Al-Taei, Mayor of Kirkuk, has published a preliminary list of 7 000 inhabitants that had been kidnapped and detained by the Barzanis’ Secret Police, Assayish, during the Kurdish occupation of the district.
If the prisoners’ families were to protest, then these prisoners would be sure to disappear.
Massoud Barzani’s PDK had annexed the Arab region of Kirkuk and had hoped to integrate it into a pseudo-Kurdistan under Israeli protection. The region has just been liberated by the (...)

Trump and secessionism

by Thierry Meyssan

Trump and secessionism

Damascus (Syria) | 31 October 2017
While the neo-conservatives were hoping to create a « world revolution » by exporting their form of « democracy » by means of war, President Trump is basing his foreign policy on the respect for State sovereignty. Consequently, he has put a stop to all US support for separatism. Thierry Meyssan reminds us here of the ambiguities in the US position on secession, then demonstrates the common features of the events in Kenya, Iraq and Spain.

The Iraqi Kurds are turning their backs on the Barzani

The Iraqi Kurds are turning their backs on the Barzani

24 October 2017
The vote in the independence referendum for an Iraqi Kurdistan of 25 September 2017 was a sham – for the vote was rigged. This fact is now boomeranging back to those who initiated it: the Barzani family and the Taliban family.
During the referendum campaign, the Kurdish regional government of Iraq declared that 80 countries in the world — including the United States and France — were in support of establishing a new State. This argument appeared decisive for a number of voters.
The (...)

A situation out of control, if Turkey invades the Kurdistan

by Savvas Kalèndéridès

A situation out of control, if Turkey invades the Kurdistan

Athens (Greece) | 13 October 2017
Ankara and Bagdad have reached a secret agreement to create a new means of communication between them and to cut the customs revenues of Erbil, the regional Kurdish government. Iraq will deploy 13,000 men from 12 October to guarantee the control of this route, the security of which will be guaranteed by the Turkish army from November. Then it will be possible for Turkey to invade the Iraqi Kurdistan.

Kurdistan – what the referendum is hiding

by Thierry Meyssan

Kurdistan – what the referendum is hiding

Damascus (Syria) | 26 September 2017
In a world where images count more than realities, the Press is presenting us with a democratic referendum for the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan. However, despite the fact that, constitutionally speaking, this referendum should be held throughout Iraq, and not only in the independentist zone, several million non-Kurdish voters have already been ejected from their homes and will never be able to return. In the polling stations, only the independentists will be supervising the legality of the vote. Thierry Meyssan reveals this fraud and the interests it is hiding.

The biased referendum for an independent Kurdistan in Iraq

The biased referendum for an independent Kurdistan in Iraq

23 September 2017
Massoud Barzani, President of the region of the Iraqi Kurdistan, has declared that in the absence of any counter-proposals from the International community, the referendum on independence, scheduled for Monday 25 September 2017, would definitely go ahead.
The UN Security Council (UNSC) has not managed to reach either a resolution (which would have legal force in international law), or even a declaration from its President (which indicates the positions of the Council members). All the UNSC (...)

UN Security Council Press Statement on Iraqi Kurdistan

UN Security Council Press Statement on Iraqi Kurdistan

New York (USA) | 21 September 2017
Tekeda Alemu © UN Photo/Kim Haughton
The members of the Security Council expressed concern over the potentially destabilizing impact of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s plans to unilaterally hold a referendum next week.
Council members note that the planned referendum is scheduled to be held while counter-Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) operations — in which Kurdish forces have played a critical role — are ongoing, and could detract from efforts to ensure the safe, (...)

200,000 Israelis expected in “Kurdistan” once independence is declared

200,000 Israelis expected in “Kurdistan” once independence is declared

20 September 2017
According to the magazine Israel-Kurd based in Erbil, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and Massoud Barzani, the self-appointed President of the future independent Kurdistan, have reached a secret agreement.
Tel-Aviv is committed to installing 200 000 Israelis of Kurdish origin in Kurdistan.
The announcement has been widely repeated in the Turkish, Iranian and Arab press. The plan to create a South Sudan and a Kurdistan has been an Israeli military objective following (...)

Rewriting the massacre at Sinjar

Rewriting the massacre at Sinjar

12 September 2017
August 2014: while Daesh are making progress in Iraq, the jihadists are taking Yezidi villages, killing men and taking women and children as their captives. The women will be used as sex slaves and the lot of adolescents will be forced conscription. Those who can, are taking refuge in the mountains of Sinjar.
Yezidisme is a religion which is an off-shoot of Iranian Mithraism – a religion that incorporates elements of Islam. Daesh considers it a brand of blasphemy. Nearly all Yezidis are (...)

The Two Narratives of the Macron Administration: one for France and one for Iraq

The Two Narratives of the Macron Administration: one for France and one for Iraq

30 August 2017
The Western Press has not understood the full significance of the French Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Defense (Jean-Yves Le Drian and Florence Parly)’s trip to Iraq on 25 and 26 August 2017.
The media is content to regurgitate the official version: that France is committed to fighting Daesh and supports the reconstruction of Iraq.
As it happens, the French delegation now in Baghdad, has provided a 430 million euro loan, but has not donated any money.
Of particular note: making a (...)

Save the date: 25 September 2017 for the dismantling of Iraq

Save the date: 25 September 2017 for the dismantling of Iraq

27 August 2017
According to pledges made by the President of the region of the Iraqi Kurdistan, a referendum will take place on Monday 25 September 2017. The issue: the independence of a State called “Kurdistan”,
This “Kurdistan” would include both the region of the Iraqi Kurdistan and the territories that it annexed, working in collaboration with Daesh; the territories from which it had driven out most of the non-Kurdish populations so that today, the Kurds are in the majority.
At the time of the fall of (...)

Moqtada Sadr visits Saudi Arabia and the Emirates

Moqtada Sadr visits Saudi Arabia and the Emirates

22 August 2017
The Shiite Nationalist leader Moqtada Sadr met the Prince Mohamed ben Salmane, heir to the throne in Riyadh (photo) and is now in the United Arab Emirates where he has met its heir to the throne, Mohammed ben Zayed Al-Nahyane.
Moqtada Sadr supports the former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and challenges Iran’s influence over the Iraqi Shi-ite community.
Moqtada Sadr’s increasing power is good news for Iraq to the extent that Sadr is promoting Iraq’s national unity, thereby countering (...)

Establishment of the Provisional Government of Ezidikhan

Establishment of the Provisional Government of Ezidikhan

25 July 2017
PREAMBLE
The Land of Ezidikhan is the homeland of the Yezidi people. Here our spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. The catastrophe that recently befell the Yezidi people – the massacre and abduction of thousands of Yezidis – calls for resolute action for our security and prosperity. Accordingly we take this action to proclaim the inherent power of self-governance in Ezidikhan the Yezidi Nation.
Yezidi survivors of the Daesh holocaust across the Eastern Mediterranean (...)

Will the USA prevent the Silk Route from being reopened?

Will the USA prevent the Silk Route from being reopened?

19 June 2017
After the Syrian Arab Army (which to be clear is the Syrian Republic’s Army) finally managed to get to the Iraqi border last week, on 16 June, the Iraqi army has also arrived in the border area (specifically at al-Waleed).
The two armies are still separated by US forces which continue to illegally occupy al-Tanf, Syria.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, these US forces are in the process of fitting themselves out with High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). These missiles (...)

Iyad Allaoui accuses Qatar and Iran of attempting to divide Iraq

Iyad Allaoui accuses Qatar and Iran of attempting to divide Iraq

19 June 2017
In a press conference held in Cairo, Iraqi Vice President, Iyad Allaoui, has accused Qatar and Iran of trying to carve up his country inter se.
A Shiite area would come under the control of Teheran whilst a Sunnite zone would fall under the control of Doha.
Whilst Iyad Allaoui’s party won the largest number of seats in the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary elections, it did not become the ruling party. Secular but shiite, Mr. Allaoui then accused Iran of intervening in his country’s politics to (...)

Almost in sight: a bridge between the Syrian and Iraqi armies

Almost in sight: a bridge between the Syrian and Iraqi armies

11 June 2017
The Arab Syrian army (ie the Syrian Republic’s army) has managed to reach the Syrian-Iraqi border.
Over the last two months, the US Coalition Forces have bombed militias or soldiers loyal to Damascus on three separate occasions. And why? Probably to cut the silk route and to prevent a bridge being built between the Syrian army and the Iraqi army.
The re-establishment of the Damascus-Baghdad route would signal that the mission that the Obama Administration entrusted to Daesh at the (...)

The Badr Brigades are entering Syria

The Badr Brigades are entering Syria

5 June 2017
The Badr Brigades have entered Syria.
This Iraqi Shiite Militia consists of between 30,000 and 50,000 men. It is trained by the Iranian Guards of the Revolution.
Its slogan is: “The security of Iraq will not be possible if Syria’s security is preserved”.
The Iranian President could recall its troops deployed in Syria.
A total reorganization of alliances is under way in the Middle (...)

The Iraqi Parliament investigates Turkish Aggression

The Iraqi Parliament investigates Turkish Aggression

28 April 2017
The Iraqi Parliament has delegated to its Defense Committee the task of leading an inquiry into the most recent Turkish attacks.
For several years, Turkey has been illegally keeping troops on Iraqi territory, just it has been doing done in Cyprus and Syria. Over the past few weeks, Turkey had illegally bombed Iraqi territory, destroying PKK bases.
Turkey declares that it is exercising its right to pursue the PKK which it considers to be a terrorist organization.
Until now, every request (...)

France and Turkey against the Kurds

by Thierry Meyssan

France and Turkey against the Kurds

Damascus (Syria) | 30 November 2016
The Western medias are unable to explain the wars which are shattering the «complicated Orient» because they refuse to see them in the regional context. Rather than discussing whether the events in Syria are a revolution, a civil war or an aggression, or whether or not the repression in Turkey is justified, Thierry Meyssan proposes another reading of the facts by presenting the example of the Kurds.

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